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- 03 -242015

“One hundred years of photography in the French Armed Forces”. Fifth episode. Germaine Kanova: a humanistic approach to war.

A photographer from London with franco-czech origins, Germaine Kanova enlisted on 22 November 1944 as a war correspondent with the armed forces film service (SCA) and followed the liberation operations in Alsace and then Germany. […]

- 03 -202015

“One hundred years of photography in the French Armed Forces”. Fourth episode. Liberations through photographs.

Louis Viguier emerged as a photographer with the armed forces film service (SCA) between November 1944 and May 1945. In Cernay, in the Colmar pocket, in February 1945, the troops of the 4th Moroccan mountain […]

- 03 -172015

“One hundred years of photography in the French Armed Forces”. Third episode. The Great War in Paris.

Preserved from invasion due to the “miracle of the Marne”, Paris saw the front draw back by nearly 100 kilometres in September 1914. The capital lived on against the backdrop of an omnipresent but remote […]